5 Dec
2002
5 Dec
'02
4:37 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
If they move almost all the way to the spindle, then
it sounds like the
pack has been bulk-erased and the drive can't find any servo information :-(
I can confirm that this is what happened on a drive with a dead read
amplifier. No read signals, so no servo bursts, and the head went
all the way in -- at a slightly alarming speed, when I had my fingers
close to it :)
We fitted a new op-amp chip in the read amplifier, and it all worked
again.
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John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk